On The Pegs January 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 1 | Page 69

On The Pegs
Vol. 4 Issue 1 - January 2019
P 69
ABOUT GRINDURO
The GRINduro for KCF event started back in De-
cember of 2016. The U Lazy S Ranch has been in our
family for over one hundred years and it’s where I
grew up riding. The Post Enduro Association was a
club on the property back in the seventies and left
the ranch in the early nineties. When I was racing,
the ranch served as my training area and I had miles
of trails that I could practice on. Once I stopped
racing national events and moved to the DFW area,
the only time that the ranch was ridden on was dur-
ing the holidays or when I was in Lubbock. My dad
and I wanted to host a ride weekend to help get our
trails back in shape while benefitting the Kurt Caselli
Foundation. The first event, we prepared forty miles
of trails for participants and Russell Bobbitt was our
first pro special guest for the event. The 2017 ver-
sion had fifty miles of trail and we limited the event
to 66 guests and invited Cody Webb out as the
special guest. For 2018, my dad, Doug Cunningham
and I prepared 66 miles of trail on Saturday for the
66 riders that signed up back in the summer time.
The unique thing about this event is that it’s a fun
trail ride and not a race. We sort the groups de-
pending on skill level and offer participants guides
for the weekend to show them around the U Lazy
S Ranch. Our guides this year were myself, Logan
Adams, Joseph Best, Travis Krist, Cameron Kirkpat-
rick, Mike Krause, and my dad, Richard Kirkpatrick.
Our special guest riders were Russell Bobbitt, Cody
Webb, and Ben Kelley. 100% of the money raised
during sign up goes to the Kurt Caselli Foundation
and we offer a t-shirt and lunch both days to riders
that sign up. Something that I love about this event